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Literary arts
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Author:Woods, GeraldineSummary: - Author:Cognard-Black, JenniferSummary:
While short stories exist in traditions all over the world, Americanshort stories are a genre all their own. Emerging from the clash of cultures--and the collision of oral and print traditions--that began during the arrival of European...
- Author:Edge, MarcSummary:
Pundits have long foretold the imminent death of print newspapers. These claims have only intensified with the rise of the internet and the recent financial crisis. In Greatly exaggerated, Marc Edge dives deep into the history and...
- Author:Meineck, PeterSummary:
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck discusses the historical, social, political and cultural context of ancient Greek drama, concentrating on the four playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes...
- Author:Levinson, Jay Conrad, Frishman, Rick, Larsen, MichaelSummary:
Because the battle begins before a book even hits the selves, an author needs every weapon to get ahead of the competition. Guerrilla Marketing for Writers is packed with proven insights and advice, it details 100 “Classified secrets”...
- Author:Laroche, MaximilienSummary:
Ceci n’est qu’une présentation d’Haïti et de sa littérature. Quelques amis à l’Université m’ayant demandé, à la suite des articles que j’avais fait paraître dans “le Devoir”, de leur en dire un peu plus long sur la littérature haïtienne...
- Author:Bruce, HarrySummary:
In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada's top non-fiction writers, lost his mind-according to his peers-when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax. Harry was already...
- Author:Bernier, FrédériqueSummary:
Ce petit livre est une grotte, une caverne littéraire sur les parois de laquelle se projettent les hantises et les rêveries d'une alter ego nommée Frida Burns. Brève autobiographie intellectuelle et lyrique, ce carnet interroge les...
- Author:Rajakumar, MohanalakshmiSummary:
Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution...
- Author:Reagin, Nancy RuthSummary:
Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to life in the form of werewolves,...
- Author:Anelli, MelissaSummary:
The Harry Potter series has ended, but the story is not over. With remembrances from J. K. Rowling's editors, agents, publicists, fans, and Rowling herself, Melissa Anelli takes us on a personal journey through every aspect of the Harry...
- Author:Small, Larry, Ryan, ShannonSummary:
Men and boys of Newfoundland's north East Coast always looked forward to the coming of March. It was sealing or swilin' time. Seal meat would give some reprieve to `the long and hungry month of March by which time the family food store...
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).
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The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue. Instead, that it is a region...
- Author:Dopp, JamieSummary:
Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key...
- Author:Mohr, MelissaSummary:
Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing--obscenities and oaths--from ancient Rome and the Bible to today. With humor and insight, Melissa Mohr takes readers on a journey to discover how "swearing" has come to include both...
- Author:Fiamengo, JaniceSummary:
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and...
- Author:Nouwen, Henri J. M.Summary:
Follows the path of Nouwen's spiritual home-coming. More than three years prior to writing his great classic, The return of the prodigal son, Nouwen suffered a personal breakdown followed by a time of sealing solitude when he encoutered...
- Author:Sugars, CynthiaSummary:
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific...
- Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War,...
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